Jaylen Brown says analytics 'ruining' basketball: 'AI hoops'

Jaylen Brown doesn’t have much time for analytics.

The Celtics wing took exception to ESPN’s Bobby Marks on Saturday after Marks suggested on Sirius XM NBA Radio that there are “mixed feelings” about Brown around the league, potentially stifling his trade value. The analyst relayed a discussion with an “analytics guy” who said that he would consider Brown a team’s seventh-best player.

The Celtics star rejected that assessment on social media, claiming that analytics are used “to discredit and control narratives.”

Brown pointed to his 523 career wins between the regular season and playoffs, the most by any player dating back to his rookie year in 2016-17. Nikola Jokic and James Harden sit second and third with 517 and 513 combined wins, respectively, in that span. No other player has more than 500.

The 29-year-old again took aim at analytics and called on Marks to reveal the person behind the original remark.

Brown, who led the Celtics in scoring last season with a career-high 28.7 points per game, was reportedly included in Boston’s offer to the Milwaukee Bucks for Giannis Antetokounmpo before the Bucks traded the Greek star to the Miami Heat on Monday.

Since then, the Celtics have reportedly been in active discussions with teams involving Brown despite team president Brad Stevens stating Wednesday that the star was “a big part of us.”

Brown started 71 games for the Celtics last season and led the NBA in 2-point field-goal attempts per game with 16. He finished sixth in MVP voting and was named to the All-NBA second team for the second time.

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